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I may be misunderstanding but I'm not sure she's left definitively if she's still a member of the board and is being compensated as such?

Apple were making direct comparisons to the GE76 Raider 11UH-053 which has a RTX 3080 in it, indicating that it had the same performance for 100W less power consumption. That seems pretty competitive to me!

Why would you want to change layout on a switch statement? That feels very early 2000s web. Just use auto layout and constraints so that all of the new iPad split screen stuff and any new device sizes comes free.

I assume it is the case with Snapchat, I don't think you can build a service at that scale without collecting some kind of data. The difference, I think is two-fold. We know that Facebook collects, analyses and keeps data and when you use Facebook it feels like it. The other difference is that Snapchat doesn't use that data to make a people or thing recommendation engine, which is what turns people off about Facebook.

As I mentioned in another comment, joining Facebook is something that just isn't a good idea for young people. The network that is praised as the primary reason Facebook is successful in the article, does more damage to someone's future than gives them benefit in the present. Schools and Colleges running checks on Facebook for anything negative about them, finding one student and following the network for other, has affected some of my friends. As has employers and work experience checking Facebook. 'The Network' also means that family are suggested to friend you almost immediately; I don't need to explain the problems with that. Snapchat is a safe haven for creative, throw away content that isn't indexable, searchable, doesn't have a social graph or a permissions model.

The idea that Facebook has beaten Snapchat just because they've cloned features is such a weird proposition to me.

Facebook's problem is not that they don't have features, it IS the network that is stopping kids from signing up. Snapchat is a safe haven for creative, throw away content that isn't indexable, searchable, doesn't have a social graph or a permissions model.

Looking at the F8 Keynote and the Computer Vision stuff that they are showing off now just reinforces to me that Snap is going in the right direction and is ahead. At this point it's who has the most data to feed the models and for me, that's Snapchat. Imagine this being put in personal drones, etc.